Crime
The Boy Who Followed Ripley
1980·304 pages
Tom Ripley befriends a troubled American runaway and is drawn into Berlin’s criminal underworld in this dark psychological thriller.
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Tom Ripley befriends a troubled American runaway and is drawn into Berlin’s criminal underworld in this dark psychological thriller.
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Tom Ripley meets a young American runaway who has a dark secret that he is desperate to hide. Soon this unlikely pair is drawn into the seamy underworld of Berlin and a shocking kidnapping. In this masterful thriller, Highsmith shatters our perceptions of her most famous creation by letting us glimpse a more compassionate side of this amoral charmer.
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What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Implied off-page intimacy; queer attraction and tension, no on-page sex
Violence & gore
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Kidnapping, murder backstory, and criminal violence without graphic gore
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Central queer subtext; Ripley’s bisexuality and bond with male runaway
Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Not present
Occult / demonology
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Not present
Political content
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Cold War-era Berlin underworld as backdrop
Self-harm / suicide
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No evidence found in available sources
Abuse & suffering
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Kidnapping central; 16-year-old in crime world; adult-minor intimate dynamic
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